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National Law Journal

D.C. Circuit, Acting on Its Own, Takes 'Clean Power Plan' to Full Court

Less than a month before a three-judge appeals panel in Washington was scheduled to consider a challenge to the Obama administration's clean-energy plan, the court announced on Monday that the full bench would hear the case instead in September.
2 minute read

Supreme Court Brief

'Don't Scream,' and Other Advice for Appellate Lawyers and Law Students

Advanced Appellate Advocacy, a new book, delves into the craft of framing, researching, writing and arguing cases on appeal at the Supreme Court and lower courts.
6 minute read

National Law Journal

Justices Tell Lower Courts to Craft Compromise for Contraceptive Insurance

The U.S. Supreme Court, ruling Monday on the contraceptive insurance requirement in the Affordable Care Act, returned the dispute to lower courts without weighing whether the mandate violates First Amendment rights of religious nonprofit employers.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Late Notice of Loss in Case May Restart Rehearing Clock

Indigent defendants will get a second chance to pursue further appellate relief if their lawyers fail to tell them in a timely fashion that they have lost their federal appeal, the Second Circuit has ruled.
8 minute read

National Law Journal

Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Protest Ban on Marble Plaza

The U.S. Supreme Court will not review a ban on protests and other demonstrations on the high court's white marble plaza.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

Court Revives Suit Against U.S. Over Fraudulent Student Loans

Former beauty school students may pursue claims that the U.S. Department of Education defied federal law by collecting student loans it knew may have been obtained fraudulently, a federal appeals court determined.
11 minute read

National Law Journal

'Nobody Asked Questions Like Scalia,' the NLJ's Tony Mauro Recalls

The National Law Journal's Tony Mauro breaks it down with Slate's Dahlia Lithwick about highlights from the U.S. Supreme Court's oral argument term, which ended in late April.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

SEC In-House Judges are Unconstitutional, Barred Investment Adviser Tells D.C. Circuit

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's in-house law judges are unconstitutionally hired for their jobs, a lawyer for an investment adviser, barred for life by the agency, told a federal appeals court in Washington on Friday.
9 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Forty Seven Hundred, L.P. v. David Whitnack Distrib. Inc., PICS Case No. 16-0590 (Pa. Super. May 4, 2016) (memorandum) Stabile, J. (5 pages).

An appeal of an order for discovery sanctions was quashed where the appeal was from an interlocutory order that did not qualify as a collateral order, because the claims of the appeal would not be irreparably lost by postponing until final disposition of the case. Appeal quashed.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Chase Home Fin., LLC v. Garrett, PICS Case No. 16-0617 (Pa. Super. May 6, 2016) (memorandum) Musmanno, J. (5 pages).

The court was precluded from addressing issues raised on appeal where appellant failed to timely file his concise statement of issues. Order of the trial court affirmed.
5 minute read

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